Just because I could, I took the list of Ports known to have been declared from the 2011 vintage and checked to see which we have available to us. This is what I found: ‘Douro Boys’ (40 cases in magnums only); Wiese & Krohn: Krohn ; Krohn Retiro Novo ; Niepoort: Niepoort (1,650 cases); Niepoort Biom...

Could we add the fact that it is a Sunday to the title? Have we booked a room at the B&F? Hopefully we will be able to get the Red Room — but I'm not sure what are the opening hours of the B&F on Sunday. And yes, I am still in. I had Sunday lunch at the B&F just before Christmas (which was splendid...

That's not a bad plan, but you are trying to fit a lot into a small amount of time. One of the things about the Douro is that it is a wonderful place to just sit and chill and let the world go buy. With friends a couple of years ago we booked into Bomfim and included a picnic lunch on the terrace of...

Charles's note has made me realise that I can also talk about the bottles which came out of my cellar this year, without having to wait to finish typing up my tasting notes. The shippers which came out of my cellar most often in 2018 were Warre (11 bottles including Cavadinha) followed by Dow (9 bot...

Josh You have a nice selection of Ports for sale. I would expect that you’ll receive a few offers from the people who read the forum. One request though. Vintage Port is best stored lying down. It is essential that it is kept out of the light, ideally somewhere the temperature is steady, cooler is b...

Would you believe it, this is my 10th annual posting of pointless statistics? I also had a look back to that first post and have noted how things have changed over the decade in italics. At the end of 2018, I had a cellar which was composed of: 90.4% Port (90.8% last year ; 82% in December 2008 ) 3....

If you're not busy tomorrow night and are in London, please do consider dropping by the Boot & Flogger after 6.30 and saying hello! It would be a pleasure to meet you — and perhaps even share a little of our Port with you! And JDAW will be there to sign your book for you...

My local Tesco has just stocked its shelves with the new Tesco Finest Vintage Port, this one is also from the Symingtons but is now the 2007 vintage. Still £20 a bottle (at full price). Next to it is the Malvedos 2004, currently reduced from £27.50 to also be £20 per bottle.

Clearing out a cupboard this morning I found a copy of Decanter Magazine from December 2017. By coincidence I also had a copy from December 2018 so I thought I would do a comparison of the Port prices given in their Fine Wine Price Watch over the course of 12 months. To my surprise, I found prices a...

I have been pleased with my Climadiff, which has run smoothly since purchase. The only slight irritation I have with it is that the door can only be hinged on the rights, which makes access more difficult than it needs to be.